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During the last four years there has hung an almost life-size picture of a skeleton in the office of Mississippi's short, wry-faced Governor Theodore Gilmore Bilbo. Across the skull was written large: MIKE CONNER. Last week the Democratic voters of Mississippi nominated Mike Conner to enter the executive mansion at Jackson next January, rip down the skeleton, replace his foe, Governor Bilbo...
...President William Coleman Nevils of Georgetown University, President Cloyd Heck Marvin of George Washington University, Chancellor Lucius Charles Clark of American University. Timekeepers held whistles poised while the seven delivered set speeches on the U. S. Constitution and four-minute extemporaneous orations. Second place was won by Ever Louise Conner, 16, of Chicago, only girl in the final contest, who it was said might have won first place had she not exceeded the time limit and been stopped by a whistle blast. Winner was Robert Gibson Rayburn, 16, of Newton, Kan. Tall, redhaired, Orator Rayburn spoke in a low. quiet...
...subject of the Pope's radio broadcast, I think the editor of TIME was more nearly right in endeavoring to portray the awe and reverence shown by pious Catholics at hearing the voice of the Holy Father, than your correspondent, Mr. Conner (TIME, March...
...John O'Conner, employment manager of the General Electric Company, will be the speaker of the evening. His subject is to be "Aptitude Tests and Their Importance in an Engineering Organization...
Declared Oklahoma's Congressman Charles O'Conner: "The best way to fight Communist propaganda is to put something in the soup besides statistics...